On Tue, 2014-10-21 at 17:56 -0400, Paul Moore wrote: > * Change the audit_status.version field comment in include/uapi/linux/audit.h > to "/* audit functionality bitmap */", or similar. We can't really change > the > structure now, but the comment is fair game.
Trying to think how to do things with a #define so you can rename, "version" is pretty darn generic to pre-process. You could make it a union, so userspace code and use a sane name.... > > * Change AUDIT_VERSION_LATEST to a bitmask instead of a number. For example, > it should be 3 given the current code, not 2. In a perfect world this > wouldn't even be in the uapi header, but it is so we need to keep it updated. > > Bumping it higher should be backwards compatible. Getting 1 without 2 is actually hard to accompish as I remember, but yes, you're right, i missed that. I should be 3.... > Can anyone think of anything else that might be affected by this? No one uses this stuff, just change it. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
